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A Street Car Named Desire - Historial Contexto

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A Street Car Named Desire - Historial Contexto

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- This play was written in 1951 by Tennesse Williams

-Williams’s father, C.C. Williams, was a traveling salesman and a heavy drinker. Williams’s mother, Edwina, was a Mississippi clergyman’s daughter prone to hysterical attacks.

- Tragic Drama

-Protagonist suffers an unfortunate fate and is fundamentally destroyed and lost at the play’s end.

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what was happening in the world 1940-1950 

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what was happening in the world 1940-1950 

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1940s is nkown by the secon world war, WW2 started in 1939, America entered the European war against Hitler's Nazi Germany and began to defend against Japan's thrust into the Pacific in 1941, Europeans had already been embattled for four years and news of the war had spread around the world.

The 1950s were a decade marked by the post-World War II boom, the dawn of the Cold War and the Civil Rights movement in the United States.

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Thomas Lanier Williams or better known as Tennessee Williams, was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus Missisippi, United States. He then passed away on February 25, 1983 in New York.. His writing carrer started when he was in college , he studied at the Columbia University.

His first recognition came when American Blues (1939), a group of one-act plays, won a Group Theatre award

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New Orleans back in the 1940s and 1950s. 

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New Orleans back in the 1940s and 1950s. 

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Society: the society during this period was very diverse because of the immigrants from Africa or Europe. Both the French and the Spanish ruled the city

Cultural: the cultural factors were also affected by the immigrants form Europe and  Africa. MARDI GRAS Was a celebration present in New Orleans. So the cultural society is stablish by both whites and Blacks.

Financial context: New Orleans has always been primarily a commercial centre because of their port. Also the manufacturing plays a second role.  Also New Orleans is a major industrial area.

Political: corruption is no longer an issue in city politics, and Blacks have become more politically articulate since they emerged as the majority of the city’s population. increase in voter registration among African Americans, and Black political groups now play an effective role in municipal politics

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https://www.britannica.com/place/New-Orleans-Louisiana/Cultural-life